My first post of my 3rd year of learning Chinese

After I wrote the last post, I did continue to study. I spent lots of time working with Smart.Fm. It has really been a great help for me with learning characters. From October until late December, I worked heavily with Smart.fm, and I also studied with ChinesePod. I also bought some Chinese textbooks that I dabbled with, but never really pursued. I have not done anything out of my handwriting Chinese textbook, but I am thinking about resuming that work.
Last month, I learned that Smart.fm will be closing, and it will be replaced with a pay site (called iknow.jp) . Currently, I cannot get the new site to work. I feel reluctant to study using Smart.Fm since it is closing in the not so distant future. If I do use the new site, I will have to find a way to pay in yen. They do not accept American money.
At the beginning of the new year, I spent time traveling around China. For the first three or so weeks, I did no studying. For the latter part, I was spending an hour a night studying with Chinesepod. I still work with the Intermediate lessons, but I don't try to do everything in each lesson. I focus on two areas; the dialogue and the vocabulary words. I don't work with the expansion sentences anymore, they are just too difficult. I work on a 3X4 schedule. Lets suppose that I am going to work with four lessons;
Lesson A
Lesson B
Lesson C
Lesson D
I have a rhythm that works like this;
day 1 - Lesson A show, lesson A review (for every review, I only focus on vocab), play the dialogue, then audio review a second time
day 2- Lesson A show, lesson A review, play the dialogue, then audio review a second time
day 3 - Lesson A show, lesson A review, play the dialogue, then audio review a second time
day 4 - Lesson A show, lesson A review, play the dialogue, then audio review a second time
day 5 - Lesson B show, B review, A dialogue, A review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review
day 6 - Lesson B show, B review, A dialogue, A review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review
day 7 - Lesson A show, A review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review, B dialogue, B review
day 8 - Lesson B show, B review, A dialogue, A review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review
day 9 - Lesson C show, C review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review, C dialogue, C review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review
day 10 -Lesson C show, C review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review, C dialogue, C review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review
day 11 -Lesson B show, B review, A dialogue, A review, C dialogue, C review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review, C dialogue, C review
day 12 - Lesson A show, A review, C dialogue, C review, B dialogue, B review, A dialogue, A review, C dialogue, C review, B dialogue, B review
Now, on day 13, I drop lesson A and begin lesson D and continue the cycle as outlined above.

For each day, this process takes about an hour.

I am also working with a program called Anki. It is a flashcard program that I really like. It functions somewhat similar to Smart.fm, although it has some differences as well. The biggest difference is that I cannot test for pinyin. I use another program called ZDT that helps me learn the pinyin for the hanzi.

Okay, im tired. I am going to go to sleep.